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• Monsanto
  ...hat it was one of the primary manufacturers of Agent Orange, code name for a powerful herbicide, defoliant and chemical weapon used widely by the US mil ...and is now an independent company. It has, according to its website, 'a very special focus on developing agricultural solutions'. Specifically
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• Jonathon Harrington
  ...c Food" - a book by [[Alex Avery]], a fierce critic of organic farming and a well known supporter of GMOs.<ref>"[http://www.optimaexcel.co.uk/services.h ...es entirely GM-free. But Harrington hit the headlines in January 2009 when a ''Guardian'' article reported that he had planted GM maize on his Welsh far
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• AfricaBio
  ...otech-industry funded [[Council for Biotechnology Information]] in the US, a Board Member of the biotech-industry backed [[ISAAA]] and Chair of the [[Af ...SAGENE]], South Africa's orginal regulatory body for GM crops. She is also a member of South Africa's current Advisory Committee, which provides expert
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• Florence Wambugu
  ...ops are the key to eradicating poverty and hunger in the Third World, says a leading African biotechnology expert.<ref>Chris Lackner, [http://archives.f ...an embarrassment to companies like Monsanto. In fact, [[L. Val Giddings]], a vice president of the [[Biotechnology Industry Organization]], has said, "I
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• Agricultural Biotechnology Council
  ...s]], ABC hired lobbying agency [[Lexington Communications]] in 2002. It is a client still in 2017. ...ce. Before that it was [[Paul Rylott]], also of Bayer although formerly UK Seed Manager for [[Aventis]] CropScience.
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• American Soybean Association
  ...rganisation working to strengthen soybeans as a viable crop' but it enjoys a remarkably close relationship with Monsanto and other biotech corporations. ...dget from [[Monsanto]], [[Pioneer Hi-Bred International]], [[BASF]], Stein Seed Co. and others, says controller [[Brian Vaught]].<ref>Robert Schubert, [htt
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• Alan Dewar
  ...n as the [[Institute of Arable Crops Research]] (IACR), which has employed a number of pro-GM scientists<ref>John Vidal and James Meikle, [http://www.gu ...0. This research used Monsanto patented seed.</ref><ref>Alan M Dewar, Lisa A Haylock, Kathy M Bean and Mike J May, [http://www.gmsciencedebate.org.uk/to
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• Des D'Souza
  ...ting information out of their Communications Manager, Des D'Souza could be a difficult task. ...imed on Radio 4 that only a relatively small number of people had attended a public meeting about the trial that had been packed out, Ms Graham confront
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• Food Standards Agency
  ...alth and consumer interests in relation to food.' In 2002 the FSA produced a two-year update on its activities. 'Our independence is vital if we are to ...listed as 2 of the FSA's 3 'guiding principles'. The Agency also lists as a key aim earning 'people's trust by what we do and how we do it'. This empha
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• L. Val Giddings
  ...delegation to the first meeting of the Open Ended Ad Hoc Working Group on a Biosafety Protocol. He attended subsequent meetings on the protocol as the Prior to USDA, Giddings worked as a biotech consultant for the [[World Bank]], following five years contributin
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• International Rice Research Institute
  ...id-1960s the IRRI's launch of a high-yielding dwarf rice variety (IR8) was a significant contribution to the Green Revolution in Asia, where nearly 91 p However, both IRRI and CGIAR have come under criticism for supporting a corporate agenda. IRRI under CGIAR is supposed to contribute to sustainable
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• International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications
  One of ISAAA's goals is to 'facilitate a knowledge-based, better informed public debate.' To help it achieve its aim ...rums are facades for large corporations. The NGOs consist of a website and a few staff, they charge.'<ref>Aaron deGrassi, [http://allafrica.com/download
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• Jonathan Jones
  Prof '''Jonathan Jones''' is a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]] and senior scientist at the [[Sainsbury Lab ...ar biology and genetics to better understand plant disease resistance with a view to engineering disease resistance genes into crop plants. In 1998 Jone
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• Limagrain
  ...takeholders, but by 2000 Limagrain had also become the world's 4th biggest seed company, with only [[Sourcewatch:DuPont|DuPont]] (Pioneer), [[Sourcewatch:M ...s also developed common research programmes for developing GM crops within a joint venture.
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• Alan McHughen
  [[Alan McHughen]] is a molecular geneticist who spent twenty years at the University of Saskatchew Yet ''Pandora's Picnic Basket'' contains a number of "untenable pseudo-scientific assertions". For instance, on p. 233
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• Pierre Pagesse
  ...al campaigners', who came to blows with French protesters seeking to clear a field of GM crops, was led by '''Pierre Pagesse'''. ([http://www.gmwatch.or ...ion]] - an umbrella organisation for farmers' cooperatives and one half of a powerful European Union farm coalition. COGECA actively supports the develo
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• PG Economics
  PG Economics has produced a number of reassuring reports dealing with the economic and strategic issues ...include the leading biotechnology companies, agro-chemical manufacturers, seed companies & plant breeders, animal feed ingredient manufacturers, breakfast
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• Paul Rylott
  ...t was also Bayer CropScience's 'Head of BioScience UK'. He was formerly UK Seed Manager for [[Aventis]] CropScience, prior to its sale to [[Bayer]]. He's a ...ion as environment minister was at risk last night after he was accused by a leading member of the powerful pro-GM lobby of boycotting the field trials
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• Rothamsted Research
  Rothamsted is a charity and a company limited by guarantee and occupies land and buildings owned by the [ ...othamsted sees such partnerships as ideally providing the opportunity for "a seamless mix of basic research and practical applications." As of August 20
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• David Sainsbury
  ...]], responsible for national policy on GM crops and foods, and as such was a key adviser to Blair on GM technology. ...in September 1997. On October 3 1997 he was made a life peer by Blair and a year later Minister for Science.
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• Richard Sithole
  ...a group of GM farmers all the way from South Africa to the UK to speak at a private meeting of The Commonwealth Business Council, before heading on to ...e Commonwealth Business Council meeting for using these farmers as part of a deliberate attempt to distort public debate on GM crops.
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• Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan
  ...ia, his promotion of GM crops is inevitably projected as an ushering in of a second Green Revolution. Indeed, that was the title of [http://www.ficci.co Although regarded as a GM proponent, Swaminathan does not present as a pugnacious propagandist for the technology like [[Norman Borlaug]], that ot
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• Lobbying of the Nuclear Industry Association in the mid-noughties
  ...ief Executive of the NIA, put forward the case for nuclear power to retain a role in UK energy supply, warning of the perils of increased reliance on ga ...nuclear industry; however, they are not insurmountable as long as there is a focused programme to change the current government policy." <ref>[http://ww
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• International Security Council, extract from The "Terrorism" Industry
  ...in U.S. agency of the Moon system in the field of terrorism propaganda. In a brochure issued by ISC in October 1987, ISC head Joseph Churba acknowledges ...logist for Israeli policy; Peters is the author of 'From Time Immemorial', a volume published in 1984 to demonstrate that Palestinian Arabs were intrude
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• The Barrow Cadbury Trust
  *Its Director, [[Sukhvinder Stubbs]], is a Trustee of [[Demos]] and a member of the [[Better Regulation Task Force]] quango. She stepped down fr ...he voluntary and community sector to deliver public services. She is also a member of the [[Spoliation Advisory Panel]]. Barrow Cadbury also sponsor [
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• Bayer: Products and Projects
  ...he skin of that sausage you have just eaten…all have in common? There is a good chance that some if not all of these products are at least partially m ...de Alka-Seltzer, One-A-Day vitamins and Baby-Bio. The following section is a division by division overview of Bayer's products.
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• Brad Mitchell
  ...k in the US, he worked on projects in India, Nepal and El Salvador. He has a particular interest in the relationship between agriculture and nutrition.< As of March 28 2009 Mitchell had posted three articles on Op-Ed News, a forum that usually carries much critical comment about Monsanto. All three
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• David Veness
  ...name="whoswho">‘VENESS, Sir David (Christopher)’, ''Who's Who 2008'', A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007.</ref> ...gation Officer leading the inquiry into the disappearance of Martin Allen, a 15 year boy who vanished at King's Cross station in November 1979 and has n
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• Rowett Research Institute
  The Institute created [[Rowett Research Services Limited]], a private company that is, in its own words "the knowledge transfer arm of th ...industries. Formed initially in 2000 as [[Nutrition Enhancement Limited]], a joint venture between [[Angle Technologies plc]] and Rowett, the company to
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• Unilever: Corporate Crimes
  ...s as possible to the market without asking itself the question ‘is there a real need for the products we produce?’ ...is a big change they will spend the money on food products. Unilever is in a unique position to exploit this. They have expanded market share in the Sou
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• ScottishPower
  ...the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well. Scottish Power has a number of divisions and subsidiaries:
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• European Commission CONECCS Database
  ...organisations organised at European level. The directory is established on a voluntary basis and it is intended only for information. ===A===
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• Dupont: Corporate crimes
  DuPont's website paints a picture of a generous company striving for social and environmental justice. To quote th However, critics of the company see them in a somewhat different light:
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• Dupont: Influence
  [[DuPont]] is part of a powerful industry lobby that has stubbornly delayed or obstructed progressi The company has been named among a number of companies attempting to weaken US laws designed to hold polluters
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• Dupont
  ...''' (DuPont) is a global science and technology company. It is involved in a range of different industry areas, including high-performance materials, sy ...nd largest chemical manufacturer in the US and is also the world's largest seed company. {{ref|3}}
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• Dupont: Who, where, how much?
  A list of the company’s major plants and the main products produced there c DuPont is a publicly owned company.
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• Pfizer: Corporate Crimes
  A new report (released on 10 July 2001) by the consumer health organization F .... The executive with the highest amount of unexercised stock options was C.A. Heimbold, Jr., Bristol-Myers Squibb's Chairman and CEO, who held $227.9 mi
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• Advanta
  ...es. In the EU they have been involved in a major scandal when conventional seed stock they had supplied was found to have substantial levels of GM contamin ...ing - molecular markers; genetic modification; Seed technology/processing; seed production; marketing and sales.
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• Advanta: Products/Projects
  ...ybrid crop lines developed through conventional plant breeding techniques. A list of their UK GM crop trials appears below. Outside of the EU Advanta su ...p field trials in the UK: nine under the name Sharpes International Seeds (a wholly owed subsidiary of Advanta BV) and one as Advanta Seeds UK Ltd.
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• Syngenta
  ...argest owner of plant biotechnology patents {{ref|2}}and the third largest seed supplier.{{ref|3}} Syngenta has more than 20,000 employees in 20 countries ...ming honeybees. With the UK government's [[BBSRC]], Syngenta is co-funding a GBP 1million project in the UK to research the decline of the bees. But the
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• Advanta: Influence / Lobbying
  ...gdom Agricultural Supply Trade Association (UKASTA) and British Sugar Beet Seed Producers Association (BSBSPA). As mentioned above Advanta have hosted Farm ...ny deliberate releases of GM crops in the UK. Advanta have hosted National Seed Listing Trials for GM crops at their Boothby Graffoe test station [39].
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• Advanta: Corporate Crimes
  ...eets with figures. And the company does not reveal any specific data about seed sales. (At time of writing, the Advanta website has been under construction ...p' resistant crop was blown onto conventional oilseed rape being grown for seed.
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• Monsanto: Products and Projects
  ...M crops in the world. RoundUp Ready crops include maize, soya, canola (oil seed rape), cotton and sugar beet. Pipeline RoundUp Ready food crops include ric ...o’s Calgene subsidiary. Another Monsanto subsidiary DeKalb have marketed a Phosphinothricin (glufosinate ammonium) herbicide tolerant maize.
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• Monsanto: Who, Where, How Much?
  Monsanto are 85% owned by [[Pharmacia]] (a merger between [[Pharmacia/Upjohn]] and [[[Monsanto]]). In the UK Monsanto Hendrik A. Verfaillie (55)
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• Monsanto: Links, contacts & resources
  The Genetic Engineering Network is a network of people opposed to the imposition of GM technology. GEN includes A resource for campaigning and taking non-violent direct action against GMOs
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• Syngenta: Products and Projects
  ...lex®, Fusilade®, Gramoxone®(paraquat), Reglone®, Topik®, Touchdown® (a glyphosate based product licensed for use on RoundUp Ready crops in the US) 4. Seed treatments (UK products are marked with *)
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• Syngenta: Who, Where, How Much?
  ...Previous appointments include Head of Novartis' Agribusiness division and a member of the Novartis executive committee; Deputy Executive Head [[Novarti ...ted]] (ICRT), member of the board of trustees of the British Red Cross and a member of the board of governors of [[Ashridge Management College]].
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• Syngenta: Corporate Crimes
  ...self may become a problem weed, either by spreading from the field or when seed shed at harvest emerges in the following crop (so-called ‘volunteer’ we * The increased use of the specific herbicide a crop is made tolerant to, will encourage the emergence of resistant weeds t
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• Countryside Alliance
  ...bour government.<ref>The contents of this page were originally drawn from a report by Corporate Watch and Red Star Research. Credit material as follow ...enerally, and it has been able to capitalise on this to gain support among a much wider audience than just hunting enthusiasts. Repeatedly, strategies t
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• National Farmers' Union: Why the poor eyesight?
  ...communities, and are incompatible with the NFU's presentation of itself as a body that can speak impartially about GM technology. ...any farmers to contract growers depedent on a single corporation for their seed, chemical inputs, processing and selling.
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